33 empty Oxygen cylinders seized in Ambala

Tribune News Service

Ambala, May 11

The district administration seized 33 empty oxygen cylinders from a factory and handed over them to the health department for utilisation in Ambala on Tuesday.

Deputy Commissioner Ashok Sharma and other senior officials found the cylinders in the Mahesh Nagar area while inspecting the macro and micro containment zones in Boh and Babyal villages. The factory representative failed to give any satisfactory reply, following which the DC directed officials to seize the cylinders. He also directed the officials to initiate appropriate action in this matter.

Sharma said, “We appeal to all factory owners and other institutions to hand over their oxygen cylinders to the administration so that the same could be used in providing relief to Covid patients.”